These Geordies were all just kids when they found fame, but how did their careers fair?

From Ant and Dec to Jill Halfpenny, the North East has produced some real stars of showbiz.

We look at what some of the region’s youngest stars did when they grew up and left Tyneside.

Ant and Dec

Ant and Dec, January 1994 (Image: Mirrorpix)

Geordie treasures Anthony McPartlin and Declan Donnelly are probably the most successful of Byker Grove’s sons and daughters.

Ant and Dec - as they have become known to their millions of fans - met on the set of the drama, where they played best friends PJ and Duncan.

The pair, who have remained best mates in real life, have enjoyed a post-Grove career which has included chart-topping success as their alter egos as well as a list of prime time presenting jobs as long as your arm including their own Saturday Night Takeaway, Britain’s Got Talent, I’m A Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here and Soccer Aid.

They recently toured arenas the UK over with Takeaway on Tour, the live incarnation of their Bafta-winning Saturday night show.

The pair have won 16 Best Entertainment Presenter NTA Awards, 32 National Television Awards and earlier this year awarded OBEs for services to Broadcasting and Entertainment.

Ant and Dec (Image: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire)

Donna Air

Donna Air starring in Byker Grove (Image: BBC)

Born in Wallsend, Donna grew up in Gosforth and made her TV debut aged just 10.

Starring in Byker Grove from the age of 10, she then started a girl band with her cast mates called Byker Groove (yes, really, the 1990s were a strange time).

Donna has a penchant for a posh bloke and has a daughter, Freya, with her former long-term partner Damian Aspinall, who is worth an estimated £200m.

Last year she split from boyfriend James Middleton, brother of Kate.

Career-wise she has been a contributing style editor for Hello magazine for the past three years and works with fashion brands as a business advisor and consultant.

Donna Air (Image: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire)

Jill Halfpenny

Jill Halfpenny in the BBC TV series Byker Grove (Image: BBC)

Jill Halfpenny grew up in Gateshead and made her TV debut in Byker Grove when she was 14 years old.

The award-winning actress has since starred in both Coronation Street, EastEnders, in the club and Waterloo Road.

Aside from television acting, Jill starred in Strictly Come Dancing and won the Theatregoers’ Choice Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Musical and the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role in a Musical for her performance in Legally Blonde in 2011.

Jill Halfpenny (Image: BBC/Shared Content Unit)

Charlie Hunnam

Charlie Hunnam (Image: Channel 4)

Heaton Manor-educated Charlie Hunnam started his acting career in Byker Grove ... of course!

He was reportedly offered the role after being spotted by a production manager in a Newcastle shoe shop.

Soon after his appearance at the famous youth club he went on to land his first major role in Russell T Davies’ ground breaking drama, Queer As Folk.

Charlie then moved to Los Angeles where he has starred in a number of films as well as playing Jackson ‘Jax’ Teller in seven series of popular US motorbike drama, Sons of Anarchy and was originally cast as Christian in Fifty Shades of Grey.

Charlie Hunnam (Image: Getty Images North America)

Andrew Hayden-Smith

Andrew Hayden-Smith

Andrew grew up in Chester-le-Street in County Durham and attended the Pelton Roseberry Sports and Community College.

Like most Geordie child stars he started his career on, you guessed it, Byker Grove.

After the show he moved to London to work as a TV presenter for Live &amp; Kicking before working briefly on This Morning.

In July 2016, he joined the cast of Channel 4 soap opera, Hollyoaks, as new regular police officer, DS Gavin Armstrong, the chief inspector investigating a murder.